Stone Country

• Utgivningsdatum: 2017-01-23
• Mått: 254 x 229 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 885 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 228
• Upplaga: 2
• Förlag: Indiana University Press
• ISBN: 9780253024527

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Scott Russell Sanders is the author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hunting for Hope, Earth Works (IUP, 2012), Dancing in Dreamtime (IUP, 2016), and Divine Animal. Among his honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.Jeffrey A. Wolin is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Photography at Indiana University. He is the author of Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust and his photographs are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Wolin is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

"Sanders' perceptive and moving writing and Wolin's haunting and majestic photographs remain as powerful as ever . . . This new edition should endure."—Bloom"Photos contrast the current world of the limestone industry with what the authors found in the 1980s. A worthwhile read!"—Limestone Symposium Newsletter"Photos contrasts the current world of the limestone industry with what the authors found in the 1980s. A worthwhile read!"—Amy Brier, president, sculptor, co-founder, Limestone Symposium"Two decades ago I discovered Scott Sanders' writing and since then I've known true envy. Like all his works, [this book] is that rarest of gifts for a reader—a book that listens to and learns from every form of life around us, a hymn to our humanity writ in stone."—Charles Johnson, author of The Middle Passage, recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction, reviewing a previous edition or volume"In Limestone Country is a thoughtful and fine local geography. Scott Sanders, judging little and setting forth much, gives us texture and depth in southern Indiana, a place that's dressed a phenomenal number of the nation's enduring buildings."—Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men, reviewing a previous edition or volume"Sanders describes a rugged country full of history, hardship and natural wonders. Read this wonderful book for a glimpse of the past and of an industry that clothes our buildings and monuments."—Ohioana Quarterly, reviewing a previous edition or volume"Two decades ago I discovered Scott Sanders' writing and since then I've known true envy. Like all his works, [this book] is that rarest of gifts for a reader—a book that listens to and learns from every form of life around us, a hymn to our humanity writ in stone."—Charles Johnson, author of The Middle Passage, recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction"In Limestone Country is a thoughtful and fine local geography. Scott Sanders, judging little and setting forth much, gives us texture and depth in southern Indiana, a place that's dressed a phenomenal number of the nation's enduring buildings."—Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men"Sanders describes a rugged country full of history, hardship and natural wonders. Read this wonderful book for a glimpse of the past and of an industry that clothes our buildings and monuments."—Ohioana Quarterly

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